Option: Your Suggestion

You had initiated it all. Someday, that would be a fact that ate at you. But, the reason you proposed an open marriage wasn’t for your own sexual gratification. Instead, it was because you saw how unsatisfied you left your wife in the bedroom. It was all for her. The sex had grown stale and bad. It was even making the experience awkward for you too. It was hard to find it hot when your wife was so clearly going through the motions.

Many nights lying awake preceded the conversation. You’d thought about it for hours and hours, looking for an answer that might change things for the better. There was an inevitable conclusion that you could not escape. It was your failure in bed that was causing this. Furthermore, you didn’t have the ability to fix this yourself.{if Normal = true}

(Normal) You were just too boring. Just too average. She was looking for some take-charge, dominant, {if Male = true}alpha male. Someone who who would put on all fours and pound her into the dirt.{endif}{if Female = true}slut breaker. Someone who would make her bow down like a ****.{endif} You could try to play the role, for her sake. But, your incredible wife deserved something more than that. She deserved a chance to be happy and fulfilled. So there could only be one solution. You needed to give her permission to indulge herself with someone who could give her what she needed.

With that painful revelation in hand, you settled on a course of action. That night at the table, you brought up the idea, suggesting it might be the solution to your marriable bed troubles.{endif}{if Meek = true}

(Meek) The very thought of it made you feel as though the strength were draining out of your body. You just didn’t have it in you to give her what she needed. You could try to be more dominant in bed, but you’d both know that it would be an effort in vain. It would have to be someone else. Someone capable of actually satisfying her. You needed to give her permission to indulge herself with someone who could give her what she needed.

The thought burned you alive. But, so long as your wife would be happy, it wouldn’t be so bad. In a stuttering voice, you brought the idea up at the table.{endif}{if Romantic = true}

(Romantic) You tried to think about it in a noble, loving way. It wasn’t that you wanted to let her sleep with someone else. It was simply the surest, most direct path to your wife feeling sexually fulfilled. One that didn’t rely on your ability to behave around her in a way that you simply couldn’t process.

When you considered it that way, it didn’t seem so bad. You would have gone through hell itself for her happiness. Your discomfort was nothing compared to that. Compared to that, what was an open marriage? You were sure it would be the smallest of hardships.

With a heavy heart, you brought the idea up to her at the table.{endif}